Dear Prince Charming by Donna Kauffman

Author:Donna Kauffman [Kauffman, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-16T17:28:38.678000+00:00

“Let’s hope we won’t need to worry about it tomorrow, okay?” she said with forced good nature and a suspicious glisten to her eyes that made him feel lower than slime. He didn’t imagine a woman like Valerie was shaken too often.

“Okay,” he said, sincerely chastened. “But if you change your mind about the mom-and-pop chat, the offer stays open.” He stepped away from her then, before he promised her anything else. Usual y, when a woman got emotional or exhibited any signs of being trouble, he was more than wil ing to walk—hel , run—in the other direction. He was not in the market for the rocky ride, not when there were so many short, smooth ones available. But Valerie wasn’t turning out to be someone he could dismiss so easily.

He snagged his coffee and moved behind the counter that separated the living room from the kitchen. Perhaps a physical barrier was wise at the moment. He admired how quickly she gathered herself. There was a slight hitch in his resolve when she slid those glasses back on, but he manful y persevered. “So, what’s our battle plan, ma générale?”

“We have three radio cal -ins, the first in about forty minutes. One is the Washington market, just local. The next is New York, for a syndicated team.

We’l have to talk about that one. I want you to be very careful with those two, they’l try to get you going and—anyway, I have notes there. The final one is northern California. A Bay Area afternoon team, but that’s later today.”

“Cal -ins? Why not have Eric do those?”

“We discussed it, but since you’l be doing several interviews today, we feel it’s better to keep the continuity going, get you in a groove, so to speak.

After the first two radio shows, you’re doing a print interview with US Weekly.” She tugged her glasses off and looked from her notes to him. “Then, before the Bay Area cal , you’l do another personal appearance for the early evening news. Local station, but Washington is a major market. So we’re going to have to be prepared. It should be a fluff piece, but we can’t afford for you to get too cocky or self-assured.”

“Somehow I don’t think you’l let that happen.”

“I’m going to do my best,” she said evenly.

His instinct was to tease, to push again. He wasn’t used to this, to not being in the driver’s seat when it came to casual flirtation, to the little dance two people did around each other when attraction reared its beguiling head. Maybe because there was a sense of urgency to it that he wasn’t able to explain away. Logical y, rational y, or otherwise.

He glanced down, caught the cover of the tabloid again, the screaming headline. Thought about her parents, two people he didn’t know and would probably never meet, looking at this, knowing everyone would be murmuring about it. And found the motivation he needed to get over this blinding attraction thing. She didn’t deserve this kind of press, and she most certainly didn’t need him to make it worse for her.

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